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Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie was an American computer scientist who created the C programming language and co-developed Unix.

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Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011) was an American computer scientist. At Bell Labs he developed the Unix operating system with Ken Thompson and created the C programming language.

Rewriting Unix in C made the operating system much easier to move to different computers. He and Ken Thompson received the Turing Award in 1983.

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